Cornell University Emblemthe department of Anthropology
Graduate Program Pre-field In-field Post-field [Ph. D. AwardedA-M|N-Z]
Pre-field

Bissenova, Alima -
Nationalism, nationalist ideologies, post-Socialism, postmodernism, neo-liberal development, construction boom, agencies of development, anthropology of state and business.
azb3@cornell.edu

Bobick, Michael -
Post-Socialism, nationality policy, security, sovereignty, separatism and frozen conflicts, neoliberalism, criminality and governance; Moldova, Ex-USSR
msb72@cornell.edu

Brown, Bernardo -
Migration, globalization, domestic workers
beb66@cornell.edu

Bui, Thi Thuy Hong -
sustainable development, urban planning, poverty reduction, Vietnam, Southeast Asia.
hb76@cornell.edu

Carrico, Kevin Joseph -
China, nationalism and identity, media and national ritual, transnational political identification, history and patriotic education, Sino-Japanese relations, economics and ideology.
kjc83@cornell.edu

Chemjong, Dambar -
ddc62@cornell.edu

Chira, Adriana -
Emerging technologies,nanotech, ethics, bureaucracies, socialism and post-socialism, Eastern Europe
ac426@cornell.edu

Christensen, Claire -
Neolithic Near East, gender, labor, symbolic use of animals, households and space
cec59@cornell.edu

Costura, Daniel Lee -
dlc33@cornell.edu

Costura, Maureen -
mdm62@cornell.edu

Doyle, Brandy -
Media (especially community radio), knowledge, power, indigeneity (especially in North America), development, action research, public and popular anthropology, ethnographic writing.
bld42@cornell.edu

Gunel, Gokce -
Political Economy; Middle East
gg268@cornell.edu

Harding, Katherine B - (on leave)
Violence, trauma, erasure, the logic of futures, security/insecurity, and redemptive narratives, Nepal.
kbh25@cornell.edu

Haupt, Timothy -
Food, time, flexible labor, cookbooks of yore; Germany th268@cornell.edu

Herrero-Torres, Clara -
ch448@cornell.edu

Koehler, Catherine -
Anthropology of organizations/institutions, law, testimony, Special Court for Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone, The Netherlands.
cmk62@cornell.edu

Lindroth, Marjo - (Visiting)

Mahajan, Nidhi -
nm297@cornell.edu

Mihara, Ryotaro -
Economic anthropology, Japanese pop culture, intellectual property, globalization (WTO), public policy, United States and Japan.
rm494@cornell.edu

Phelps, Elizabeth -
Latino and Latina youth, immigration, transnational identities, language ideology, resistance, Latin America
eep6@cornell.edu

Rojas, David -
Political economy, development, globalization, war and violence, anthropological theory, anthropology of the state, sovereignty; the Amazon. dmr242@cornell.edu

Rosario, Melissa -
Puerto Rican nation, performativity, identity, blurring genres, diaspora
mlr58@cornell.edu

Ryan, Beth -
Historical archaeology of native communities, late 18th - early 19th century Iroquois.
br44@cornell.edu

Schoening, Krista -
kms88@cornell.edu

Shahrin, Shariza Wahyuna -
Historical and sociocultural anthropology, gender, personhood, ritual, and power.
sh397@cornell.edu

Shrestha, Tina -
South Asian studies, Asian American studies, nationalism, ethnicity, diaspora, postcolonialism, transnational feminist theories, Nepal.
ts287@cornell.edu

Suprajitno, Stetefanus -
ss668@cornell.edu

Taminato, Marcel -
Buddhism, Monarchy, Politics of Knowledge, Ethnographic Writing, Anthropology of the State, Corruption and Elites, Anthropological Theory, History of Anthropology, Linguistics, Thailand, Brazil
mt448@cornell.edu

Tete-Rosentahl, Dede -
Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sex & Gender in cross-cultural perspective, personhood, nationalism, feminist theories, social identity, popular culture and knowledge creation; Japan
dyt4@cornell.edu

Torres, Blanca - (on leave)
U.S./Mexico borderlands, indigenous diaspora, transborder Mixtec and Zapotec communities, immigrant women, transnational identity, autonomy, and agency.
bet23@cornell.edu

Turnbull, Lesley -
lrt24@cornell.edu

Varma, Saiba -
The anthropology of violence, medical anthropology, justice, healing, gender, South Asia, Kashmir.
sv98@cornell.edu

Watanabe, Chika -
Burma, Japan, humanitarianism, politics of emotionality, refugees and displacement, visual documentation
cw326@cornell.edu

Work, Courtney -
cw432@cornell.edu

Yonucu, Deniz -
Criminalization and racialization of poverty, stateviolence,anthropology of the state, citizenship, urban segregation, social exclusion; Turkey, France.
dy75@cornell.edu

Yue, Kun -
China; historical anthropology, religion and ritual, house and landscape, culture enconter in SW China, visual anthropology.
ky87@cornell.edu

Wu, Sophie I-Fun - (Visiting)

In-field

Bineva, Valeria -
Chalcolithic/Late and Final Neolithic Balkans; prehistoric figurines and body politics; mortuary practice in prehistoric South-East Europe; prehistoric textiles.
vbb3@cornell.edu

Erie, Matthew S. -
Legal and political anthropology, property regimes, ethnicity, law and development, legal pluralism, post-socialist transitional societies, China
mse22@cornell.edu

Ettlinger, Jason A. -
Architecture, city planning, glass, anthropology of knowledge, Japan.
jae29@cornell.edu

Funahashi, Daena Aki -
Europeanization and anxiety; healthcare and market forces; medicalization of "depression" and "burn out" in Finland; national fetishism; psychoanalysis
af10@cornell.edu

Gillam, Reighan -
Race, media, nationalism; Brazil
rag47@cornell.edu

Hall, Olivia -
Food, traditional and regional food products, identity, EU, regionalism, Europe and Poland
omh4@cornell.edu

Hallett, Miranda Cady -
Transnational migration, space and place, late capitalism, ethnicity, immigration policy, anthropology of violence; Rural south of the US, Central America
mrb24@cornell.edu

Hyman, Marita -
meh48@cornell.edu

Johnson, Andrew -
Historiography, urban anthropology, city planning and architecture, nationalism; northern Thailand
aaj22@cornell.edu

McIntyre, Jonathan
Vietnamese cultural studies, transnationalism, diaspora populations, and political economy
jm394@cornell.edu

Middlebrooks, Marcie
Religion, Buddhism, Negotiation of Orthodoxy/Heterodoxy in Religious Practice and Identity, Anthropology of Time, New Religions, Translation Theory, Charisma, Colonial Modernity and Modernization, Korean Film. Korea, Japan
mam57@cornell.edu

Moses, Sharon - Archaeology
burial practices, sacred space, belief systems, symbolism, children in ancient societies, archaeological illustration
skm33@cornell.edu

Ngo, Binh -
bn37@cornell.edu

Small, Ivan Victor -
Globalization, Diaspora, Transnationalism, Gifting imaginaries, Remittance economies, Migration, Development, Displacement, Historical anthropology, Economic sociology, East/Southeast Asia, Viet Nam.
ivs2@cornell.edu

Snellinger, Amanda
Social Movements, Activism and Political Participation, Youth, Political Anthropology, Law and Societies, Power, Theories of the State, Engagement of Political Hope, Political Discourse and Indoctrination, Knowledge Production, Intellectuals and Nationalism, and Elites. Nepal, India, and South Asia.
ats35@cornell.edu

Post-field

Brereton, Brian -
Anthropology of religion; accommodation of practice theory and psychoanalysis; eschatology; (re)creation, maintenance, and propagation of imaginaries; popular culture; socialization and violence; Taiwan and China.
bgb25@cornell.edu

Couvson, Kimberly -
Brands, advertising, and marketing strategies of Chinese domestic companies, creativity, advertising as a global profession, marketing practices and ideologies, Chinese late/post-socialism, capitalism as a cultural system; Beijing, mainland China (PRC)
kac75@cornell.edu

Falcone, Jessica
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religion, nationalism, diaspora, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, the pre-event and the non-event, hope, ambivalence, desire, engaged Buddhism, India
jmf55@cornell.edu

Ferguson, Jane Martin -
Media and the Stateless: digital pirates and culture jams across the Thai-Burma border.
Research interests: Nationalism, borderlands, popular culture, musical genres, digital media, print capitalism, Southeast Asia (Thailand, Burma, Shan) migration
jmf48@cornell.edu

Giron, Felicia -
feg3@cornell.edu

Henry, Eric -
Modernity, language, English, commodification, China
eh89@cornell.edu

Levine, Amy
NGOs and NPOs, artifacts of work and leisure in those organizations, conceptions of generation and change, anthropology of activist and academic knowledge, law, economics, science, South Korea.
abl25@cornell.edu

Ma, Hongnan -
hm37@cornell.edu

Pandey, Annarose Yamuna -
ayp4@cornell.edu

Session, Noni -
East Africa, Western Institutional Configurations in East Africa
nds5@cornell.edu

Shannon, Jennifer -
Anthropology of museums; indigenous peoples representation and collaboration; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
jas293@cornell.edu

Shneiderman, Sara -
Ethnic, religious, gender and political identities; ritual practice; cultural production; cross-border migration; subjectivity and the state; indigenous rights and the politics of recognition; ethnography as activism; Nepal
ss364@cornell.edu

Stevens, John H. -
jhs14@cornell.edu

Todzia, Lisa Marie -
lmt12@cornell.edu

Townsend, Middleton, C. -
Belonging; identity; ethnicity/race/tribe; hybridity and/vs multiculturalism; colonialism; nationalism; performativity; sociology of knowledge, epistemology; postcolonial theory: Darjeeling, India; Nepal; South Asia.
ctm22@cornell.edu

Vaisman, Noa -
Human rights, truth, justice, body, anthropology of time, documentary films, psychoanalysis, kinship, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
nv32@cornell.edu

Watson, Marcus Dubois -
Development, subjectivity/personhood, identity construction, and medical anthropology, South Africa. mdw26@cornell.edu

Zhang, Yinong -
yz36@cornell.edu